Offbeat WWII theme movies...

[L. Kafka]

Lena Wurtmuller's "Seven Beauties" is one of my favorite movies. It is a theater of the absurd for the what G. Ginacaro(sp) has to go through. He ends up in a German POW camp where he is seduced by a fat female prison commandant. Ouch

Slaughterhouse Five is another good offbeat war movie.

Critics panned Catch-22, but years later it evolved into something of a cult classic.

And yours?

[Paul]

Hi L.,

Catch22 would have to be my all time favourite ww2 movie, although i do think one should read the book before seeing it, and then after seeing it watching the documentary on how it was made.

totally ahead of its time............can u tell i liked it :)

[L. Kafka]

Is this in a DVD version of Catch-22? I have the VHS version of Catch-22.

I saw the movie in 1970 when it came out. I read the Joseph Heller novel soon after.

I was in the Marines in Vietnam and then a career city firefighter after for 25 years and saw a number of personalities that fit into the theme of Catch-22 many times.

[Paul]

yep the dvd verison, it has a long interview with the directors/producers and has heaps of interesting thing in it, well worth it.

[Rolf Steiner]

anyone seen Europa Europa? Painful foreskin reconstruction scene. Yow!

[Will]

yeah I've seen Europa Europa its definatley a very interestingley shot film still and all I did'nt think it was really all that bad. I've always found the Novel of catch 22 to be far superior to the film sadly, I just don't think they can carry off the humour quite as sucessfully on film

[tirola]

I highly recommend the German WW2 movies form the 1950s

- 08/15 tirlogy.
- "Hunde wollt ihr ewig leben" (released as Stalingrad in the US)
- "Die Brücke" (The Bridge)

[Stalingrad]

The 08/15 tirlogy you mentioned tirola, are they are also books written by Helmut Krist? I think my Opa has them... I've got one of Krist's books "Fabrik der Offiziere". Has anyone seen the russian war movie "Come and see"?

[Doktor Krollspell]

Hello Stalingrad!

Yes, these books are written by the german author Hans Hellmut Kirst. The book "Fabrik der Offiziere" is one of my favorite Kirst titles and the 08/15 triology are classical! Most of Kirst's WWII-related books are a good read. He also wrote a lot of police thrillers in the sixties and seventies that I think are somewhat dated today.
See the following link for a short bio:

http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/KirstHans/


Regards,

Krollspell

[Stalingrad]

Thank you Doktor Krollspell! Next time I visit my Opa I will have a look in his bookshelf, and I've seen many of those police thrillers you mentioned in second hand book stores. I will also try to find the 08/15 films... hope the are not to hard to find.

Stalingrad

[tirola]

Now that you mention it "Fabrik der Offiziere" is another good movie.

Also look for "Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt". It's DDR made (in 1967 I belive) it has the whole career through HJ Flackhelfer, RAD and it has a great T-34 battle in it.

All the movies that I mentioned are avalibe at amazon.de

[Stalingrad]

"Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt" sounds interesting, Tirola. I'll try to find it to. Hmm, T-34 battle, sounds great And I'll have my eyes open for the film "Fabrik der Offiziere". Thanks Tirola.




Stalingrad

[L. Kafka]

This movie stars one of my favorite whacky actors, Dick Shawn.

American and Italo soldiers become allies.

Good flick to watch over drinks with friends.

[knieptang]

The best link to the DEFA-Movies in english language is "DEFA Film Library".

For non german reading or speaking users in this forum the best source, example Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt



The Database: http://www.umass.edu/defa/

Your link: http://www.umass.edu/defa/films/abenteu ... holt.shtml

Michael